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Designing a Western blot for CHRNA5? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about Neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit alpha-5.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CHRNA5 |
| Uniprot: | P30532 |
| Entrez: | 1138 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| ligand-gated ion channel (TC 1.A.9) family |

Cholinergic receptor, neuronal nicotinic, alpha polypeptide-5; cholinergic receptor, nicotinic, alpha 5; cholinergic receptor, nicotinic, alpha polypeptide 5; CHRNA5; LNCR2; NACHRA5; neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit alpha-5; neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, alpha5 subunit; Nicotinic Acetylcholine R alpha 5; Nicotinic Acetylcholine Ra5
Mass (kDA):
53.054 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 15q25.1 |
| Sequence: | 15; NC_000015.10 (78565520..78595269) |
Cell junction, synapse, postsynaptic cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.





PMID: 1542648 by Chini B., et al. Neuronal-type alpha-bungarotoxin receptors and the alpha 5-nicotinic receptor subunit gene are expressed in neuronal and nonneuronal human cell lines.
PMID: 8906617 by Elliott K.J., et al. Comparative structure of human neuronal alpha 2-alpha 7 and beta 2- beta 4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits and functional expression of the alpha 2, alpha 3, alpha 4, alpha 7, beta 2, and beta 4 subunits.
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